Teen arrested in 13-year-old's slaying

Updated 7:25 am, Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Last September, SAPD detectives probed the scene in the 300 block of East Palfrey on the Southeast Side, where Gabriel was shot twice in the early morning hours.

Last September, SAPD detectives probed the scene in the 300 block of East Palfrey on the Southeast Side, where Gabriel was shot twice in the early morning hours.

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Gabriel Martinez, a seventh-grader at Rogers Middle School, was shot outside his home.

Gabriel Martinez, a seventh-grader at Rogers Middle School, was shot outside his home.

Teen arrested in 13-year-old's slaying

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SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio police arrested a 14-year-old boy Monday in the shooting death last year of a 13-year-old, officials said.

The identity of the suspect, who was already in juvenile detention on an unrelated robbery charge, was not released because of his age.

Authorities said last year that Gabriel Martinez was shot twice around 3 a.m. on Sept. 15 outside his Southeast Side home, in the 300 block of East Palfrey Street. He was a seventh-grader at Rogers Middle School.

When officers arrived at the scene of the shooting, they found a woman crying hysterically and screaming, “Help me!” as she leaned over Gabriel, according to a police report.

The woman, who was not identified in the report, told police she saw three men in a black SUV. She said one of them yelled, “What's up (expletive)? (Expletive) Mexicans!” The woman then heard four shots, she said.

Gabriel then told her he had been shot, and she helped him to the backyard before calling police, according to the report.

The woman had asked Gabriel to go outside before the shooting to get money from her purse, which was in the trunk of her car, so she could go to the store, the report says. But the report also says the woman “was intoxicated and changed her story many times.”

Other people interviewed by the police said they all heard arguing before the gunshots, according to the report.

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A Police Department spokeswoman said she did not know if the suspect's robbery charge has been adjudicated. Officials declined to provide more information about the investigation because of the suspect's age.